Hi,
Here is the draft for the faq at
http://www.best.com/~bos/os-faq/FAQ-1.html . Please feel free to
critique and suggest revisions. I am sending this as an attachment so
that links will remain intact.
Jim
Title: the_hurd_blurb
The
GNU
Hurd is a
dynamic
operating system being written by a group of core developers lead by Thomas
Bushnell, BSG. The Hurd itself is a
system
of servers using
translators
for the user/server interface that run on top of the
GNU
Mach microkernel to manage such things as file systems, network protocols,
file access, and other features. A satellite development group is
in the process of porting libraries and applications as well as implementing
bug detection in preparation for the
Debian
GNU/Hurd distribution. Installation of the hurd at present is
through the
large tarball
method or
cross-compiling.
A page for recent
development
status and several mailing lists;
help-hurd,
debian-hurd
and
bug-hurd
with their associated archives at
gnu.org
and
debian.org
for development communications. Several unofficial web sites for
the Hurd can be found at:
http://hurd.zugzug.com/
,
http://www.crosswinds.net/~gnuhurd/
and
http://hurd.sourceforge.net/
.
